Author: peted70

Did you know that there is an API that you can call which will accept as input an audio stream, say from a microphone, that will translate any spoken sentences into another language and return not only a final audio…

So, I guessed that sooner or later I’m going to want to need to access Microsoft Graph APIs from a HoloLens and I was writing some similar code for a different environment I thought I may as well combine the…

The 3D industry has been lacking a ubiquitous, standard file format for scene description. Many years ago I worked on a project involving creating camera motion paths to drive motion control rigs like this one below: I worked with a…

In order to make the architecture from the first Holograms Catalogue post actually usable we’ll need a real cloud catalogue to retrieve the 3D models from. I’m not going to create a Web API at this point but we can…

Shared Holograms Catalogue I’ve decided to break this post up into separate topics as when I got into this I realised there are a number of natural sections with their own merit. So think of this as a trip through…

It was great to see all of the mixed reality content at this years Future Decoded event and was also fun to take part with a couple of technical ‘deep dive’ sessions with my colleague Mike Taulty: Bootstrapping Your Windows…

In case you missed it Microsoft recently acquired Simplygon and, as of the timing of BUILD 2017 it is now being offered completely free. So, no royalties or licensing fees required.The free model is for one node per license and…

As with any 3D project it is important when working with HoloLens to understand and streamline the content pipeline from content creation or procurement through to optimised models running inside the final app. If you are creating the assets in-house…

Since composing the last post: HoloLens–The Path to 60fps I have carried out some more work on HoloLens apps with an important requirement for as high quality rendering as possible but of course the goal is always to maintain 60…